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Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
by Hamilton, Virginia (Author); Dillon, Leo (Illustrator); Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394828739
- ISBN 13
- 9780394828732
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About This Item
New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Used Book: Hard Cover
Synopsis
Virginia Hamilton , storyteller, lecturer, and biographer, was born and raised in Yellow Springs, OH, which is said to be a station on the Underground Railroad. Her grandfather settled in the village after escaping slavery in Virginia. She was educated at Antioch College and Ohio State University and did further study in literature and the novel at the New School for Social Research. Virginia was the first African American woman to win the Newbery Award, for M.C. Higgins the Great. Since then, she has won three Newbery Honors and three Coretta Scott King Awards. In 1992, Virginia was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, which is presented every two years by the International Board on Books for Young People, in recognition of her entire body of work. Virginia writes first for the pleasure of using words and language to evoke characters and their world, and in historical accounts such as Anthony Burns, the lives of real people. Secondly, Hamilton writes to entertain, to inspire in people the desire to read on and on good books made especially for them. Leo and Diane Dillon have twice won the Caldecott Medal
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- Adventures Underground
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 894965
- Title
- Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom
- Author
- Hamilton, Virginia (Author); Dillon, Leo (Illustrator); Dillon, Diane (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394828739
- ISBN 13
- 9780394828732
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Ethnic Studies, Civil War
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